OCALA - Police say a mother of four teenage boys has been charged with neglect after saying she was going "on strike" because she was fed up with them. ...more

February 21, 2008

The state Department of Children & Families is launching a probe into the backgrounds of all of its employees while police continue searching for possible victims of a former DCF spokesman arrested on child pornography charges. ...more

February 5, 2008

TAMPA - The former spokesman for the state agency that protects children, arrested Friday on charges that he asked two teenage boys to take sexual pictures of themselves, may have other victims, police said today. ...more

February 4, 2008

The head of the state agency that protects children has called the arrest of its spokesman on child pornography charges "a setback" to efforts to repair its troubled image. ...more

February 2, 2008

TAMPA - The former spokesman for Florida's agency that protects children made his first court appearance today on eight counts of using a child in a sexual performance. Al Zimmerman's bail was doubled to $120,000 and a hearing was set for Monday to determine if it should be raised even higher, said Sandi Copes, spokeswoman for the Florida Office of the Attorney General. ...more

February 2, 2008

The spokesman for the agency that protects Florida's children is accused of soliciting two teenagers to perform lewd acts so he could make child porn, authorities said Friday. ...more

February 2, 2008

The number of Hillsborough County children sheltered by the state has dropped drastically this year because of a new program that puts help into the home so children can stay put. ...more

December 27, 2007

Imagine you are a teenage foster child who has been in the system so long you have little or no memory of your biological parents. ...more

December 4, 2007

A Cuban farmer would get sole custody of his 5-year-old daughter under a settlement reached Wednesday after a lengthy court battle involving the girl's U.S. foster parents and state officials, according to a person familiar with the deal. ...more

November 29, 2007

When Jeff Rainey took over Hillsborough Kids Inc. in 2005, the private agency was responsible for more than 5,000 abused and neglected children in Hillsborough County. ...more

November 10, 2007